Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-14

there are tens OF thousands of women who
are dying, stung to death bv ihese pestfer-
ons domestic annoyances. The Lord sent tne
hornet.
These small insect disturbances may also
come in the shape OF business irrltations.
There are men here who went through 1887
and Sept. "a, 1879. without losing their bal
ance, who are every day JUNIORS by little
annoy ances--a clerks i'll manners. or blot
OF ink on bill of lading. or the extravaganza
OF partner who overdrawS his account, or
the underselling by q business rival, or the
whispering OF business couhdences IN the
streets. or the making or some little bad debt
which was against your Judgment, just TO
please somebody else. IL is not the panics
that kill the merchants. Paulcs come only
once in ten or twenty years IL Is the con-
slant din of these everyday annoyaDces
whlch Is sending SO many OF our best mer-
chants into nervous dyspepsia and paralysis
and the grave. When our national commerce
fell hat on its face. these men stood up and
felt almost defiant; but their life is giving
way now under the swarm of these pesLf
erous ann0yances. The Lord sent the hornet.
have noticed in the history Of some OF my
congregation that their annoyances are null
tlplying, and that they have hundred where
they used to have ten. The naturalist tells
lis that wal sometimes has family of
10000 wasps, and II does seem as If every an
noyance OF your life bred a million. BY the
help OF Goa to-day want to show you the
other SIDE. The hornet is of no use o, yes.
The naturaliss tells us they are very import
ant In The worlds economy; they Kill spiders
heiIeve God sends the annoyances OF our lie
upon us to Kill the spiders of the soul and to
clear the atmosphere OF our skies. These an
noyances are sent on us, think, TO awake us
up from our lethargy. There is nothing that
makes man 50 lively as "a neat OF yellow
Jackets," and thiIk that these 6nnoyances
are int ndei 10 persuade us of the fact that
TINS is not world for us to stop IN. IT we
had a bed OF everything that was attractive
ami soft and easy. what would we want Of
heayen2 You think that tue hollow tree
sends the hornet, or you think the devil sends
the hornet. 1 want to correct your opinion.
The Lord sent the hornet.
Then also think these annoyances come
upon us 10 culture our patience. In tue
gymnasium you find upright parallel bars
bars with holes over each other for pegs TO be
put in. hen the gymnast takes a peg in each
hand and he begins to climb. Que lucn ut u
time, or two inches, ana getting his strength
cultured, reaches after awhile the ceiling.
And IL seems TO me that these annOyanccs n
life are moral gymnasium, each worry
peg by which we are to climb higher and
higher in Christian attainment. We ali love
~ sec patience, but 1t cannot be cultured in
far weather. 1t Is "A child of the storm. IL
you had everything des rable and there was
nothing more TO get, what would you want
with patience? The only time TO culture IL
is when you are slaudered and cheated, and
sick anu half dead. "Ob," you Say, 'if 1
only had tine circumstances OF some well-lo-
do man would be patient toO." You might
as well say : ''If 1t were not for this water
/ would swim?' or "I could shoot
this gun If it were not for
the caps" When you stand chiu-deep
in annoy ances Is the time for you TO swim ont
toward the great headlanus OF Christian at
taipment, and when our life is loaded to The
muzzle with repuisiye annoyauces-that Is
the time to draw the trigger. Nothing but
lhe furnace VIII ever burn out OF us the
chnker and the Stag. / have formed tuIs
theory in regard to small annOyanCes and
YeXations: Ii takes just 50 mucH trouble to
fit us for usefulness ana for heaven. The
only question is, whether we shall take 1t in
the bulk, or pulyerized and granulated. Here
is one man VINO takes 1T IN the bulk. His
back IS broken. or ms eyeslRht put out, or
some other awful calamity befails him; while
the vast majority OF people take the thing
pecemeal. Which way would you rather
nave l.? OF course in pIecemeal Better
have five aching teeth than one broken jaw.
Better ten fly-blsters than an amputaCioD.
Better twenty squalls than one cyclone.
There may be difference or opinion as to
alopathy and homeopathy: hut in this mat
ter OF trouble / like homeOi iathic dOses--small
pellets of annoyance rather than some knock
down dose of calamity. Instead of the Chuu-
derbolt give us the hornet. II you have a
bank you would great deal rather that ntty
men should come IN with checks less than a
hundred dollars than TO have two depositors
come in the same day each wanting his ten
thousand dollars. la this latter case you
cough and look down at the floor and up at the
ceiling before you look into the safe. Now,
my friends. would you not rather have these
small drafts OF annoyance on your bank of
your endurancel / want 10 make you 80
strong that you Will not surrender TO small
aDnoyances. In the village of Hamelin,
tradition says, there was an invasion Of rats,
and these small creatures almost deYoured
the town and threatened the lives OF the pop
ulation, and the story Is that piper came
out one day and played very sweet tune,
and all the vermin followed hIm-fOllowed
him TO the banks of the Weser ana then he
blew blast and they dropped in and disap-
peared forever. OF course this is a fable, but
wish i could, on the sweet flute of the Cos
pei, draw forth all this nibbling and burrow-
ing annoyances OF your lie, and Ulay them
down into the depths forever. How many
touches did the artist give to his picture OF
"CoJouaxi," or his Heart Of the AndesP ]
suppose about fifty thousand touches. l hear
tae canvas saying. "Why do you keep me
trembling with that pencil so long? Why
don't YOU puL it on in one dashT mo" says
the artist, II know how to make painting;
1t VIII take fifty thousand OF these touches"
And want you, my friends, TO understand
that il is these ten thousand annoyances
WINCH under God. are making up the picture
of your life, to be hung at last In The galleries
OF Heaven, d. fOr angels 10 look AZ. Coo
knows how to make 4 picture.
90 into sculptoT's studio and see him
shaping a statue. He has chise in one hand
and mallet IN The other, and he gives a very
gentle stroke click, click, click say. "Why
don't you strike harderP "ObP' ne replies.
THAT would shatter the statue. l can't do il
that way. must do IT this way" so he
works on, and after awhile the features come
out and everybody that enters the studio IL
and fascinated. We'll, God has your
soul under process OF Development. and IL 10
the little annoyapces and vexations OF life
that are ch.seling out yonr in mortalshature.
II is click. chez, click! / wonder why some
great Providence docs not come, and with one |
stroke prepare you for heaven. All. no: God
Says that 10 not the way. And 70 he keeps
on by strokes Of little yexaticns, until
at last you shall be glad
spectacle for angels and for men.
You know that large fortune may be spent
in small change, and q vast amount of moral
character may go away in small depletion. IL
Ia the little troubles Of lie that are having
more effect upon you tban great ones. A
swarm Of locusts Will Kill grain field sooner
than the incursiOn of three or four cattle.
You say: ''Since lost my child. since lost
my property, have been a different man."
little annoyances, that are bewing, digging,
cutting. shaping. splitting, and
Rats may sink ship. One
luciger-match may send destruction through
\ block of store houses. Catherine de Med
Icis got her death from smelling poisonous
rose. Columbus, by stopping and asking for
A piece OF bread and drink OF water at
\ Francl- can convent. was led to the DIS
covery Of a new world. And there is an inti-
mate connection between TITLES and i'm
% mensities, between nothings and everything. |
Now, be careful to let none OF those annoy |
anccs 20 through your soul unarraigned. |
Compel them 10 adninis ter 10 your spiritual |
wealth. The scratch OF o six-penny nail |
sometimes produces lock jaw, and the clip OF /
/ mcst innnteeimal annoyance may damage |
you forever. DO not let any annoyance or
perplexlty come across your soul without It's